Natural Course of Change

The thing that stems the natural source of change is our fear, and mostly our fear of pain. It's almost like we can't give ourselves permission to be sad, or be confused, or be frustrated, or feel betrayed or abandoned or hurt. Things happen. Granted, many times our interpretation is completely subjective, but that doesn't mean it isn't legitimate. However we experience things is completely ok. It's just when we get to fearing the experiences that we get in trouble.

We can spend an entire lifetime completely het up, completely fretting, worried, cautious, scared, holed up, protected because we haven't let go of the feeling we had when we experienced something before. How can you live that way? Truth is, you can't. Just because you have one experience with something that doesn't work out, doesn't mean you will have that experience every time.

Logically we know this and yet how much time do we spend trying to avoid feelings like feeling hurt? We used to give these courses in Germany - and half the battle was getting people in touch with a feeling that actually liberated them once they let it go - it was like they didn't have to go on protecting this one little spot that terrified them because it hurt, and they hurt so much more instead. Yet going through the course they'd touch it, maybe cry or get angry about it or laugh or whatever, and they were free.

This is the freedom that gives shoulders the natural course of change. By being willing to see what is there (old hurts that can't do anything to us anymore, or new feelings that we just need to experience in the same way), we can let go of it, and the load is off us. We are free to move, to dance, to sing, to live. We are back on the path of the present and we can sway and change and evolve with it because we are free to do so.

Blessings.
- Darshan






© 2010 Darshan F Jessop

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